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Those who have yet another year and those who are concluding their studies this year.

106 days until the dissertation is in and only 4 other assignments after I hand in another tomorrow.

Bloody looking forward to it! Uni is bleh. In about 12 hours I will have concluded my studies on Seamus Heaney, whilst he's a good chap I'm looking forward to being able to go a day without reading one of his poems or an article on him or a book on him. I honestly feel like he's been my lover for the past few months.

When do you finish? For me it's the end of april, we have bloody weird term dates here.

the grass is always greener, you know. don't get me wrong, I like working. I like contributing, using my brain and of course earning my living, but once you're out there in the world of work (even as an army officer, I'd imagine) it can be a bit repetitive and claustrophic. Don't waste the last of your uni days by wishing them away.

When I first got a job it was great, left bang on six and forgot about it. But as things of moved on and I've taken work more seriously and been given more responsibility, I've lost that aspect; work doesn't stop at 6 or whatever, I still answer emails or calls and a lot of thinking time is taken up with work.

But I do get what you're saying, there is no time at uni in which you don;t think *I should be working not doing X*

I went through an 18-month period of doing really long hours and weekends and swore that I'd never do it again. I might stay behind for an hour or two, but I'm pretty strict in making sure that I don't take work home with me, and don't let it bleed into my own time to the detriment of other things that I want to do.

My law-studying housemate did 8 hours of lectures a week and about the same in reading and essays. Others did loads of reading and joined the mooting society or debating society or did part-time placements in legal firms.

I preferred to spend my spare time away form law as much as posisble and getting involved in sports, music and debating societies. And binge drinking/ sexing minor celebrities, obviously, to ensure the fullest possible curriculum.

I've got a job and I work as much as I can when I'm not doing uni work, although there's little free time this term.

I'm looking forward to going out and achieving something and I know a degree is an achievement, but it doesn't feel hands on enough at the moment. I enjoy studying in a way, but I think it could have been done in 2 years, not 3.

But yeah, being at work is much better than university - you get paid and at the end of the day you can go home and forget about it, no guilty feelings that you should be doing something hanging over you.

I've realised the last thing I want to do is ever go back to doing the same mundane crap day in, day out 5 days a week. I'm going to try and freelance or at least have two different part-time jobs when I finish this as I don't think I can face 5 days a week in the same place doing the same things.

and one class per week is good, but don't you have lots of work to do for that module?

I'm quite self disciplined so I always wake up early and I drink in moderation - I haven't drank since NYE and probably wont until February. I hate the thought of wasting my life laying in a bed or drinking it away.

But I definitely people who are carefree and enjoying themselves are doing something far more worthwile with their lives than people (like me) who are busy and focused and waste their time actually doing stuff.

Final year consisted of 4 hour weeks, didn't have to do a dissertation, didn't have to do an extra reading outside of revision notes and it was fantastic. Didn't get bollocked for missing lectures/seminars

Seriously though I did English Lit at a top ten uni and did fuck all in my last year, 15000 words spread over three essays, one two hour seminar a week, and I fucking loved it and I miss it so much. Not everyone has mental hours for a good degree. And not everyone wants to shoot people.

i actually hardly ever get bored or depressed with nothing to do, but i do occasionally think what the fuck is wrong with me how can i possibly be wasting so much time doing nothing. and then i think about doing something productive, but get overwhelmed by the sheer number of options and how much effort they all are and it stresses me out and i end up having a beer and watching 6 episodes of something instead. which is sometimes mildly depressing, but hey i have my whole life to be productive